Case modding
My friend Andrew Msiska is a music producer here in Malawi of local musicians. Every day, he’s running around in town to produce some CDs or music cassettes. Producing music in Malawi is a pain, because the only guys, who own Cassette or CD duplicators in Malawi are richt Indians, who exploit the local musicians and generate lots of moneys for themselves only. (An analogy to the Music Industry and DRM?)
That’s why, I brought the controller of CD duplicator and gave it to Andrew. After that he bought a couple of CD-RWs and went to the local carpenter whot produced a case for the duplicator. In the next weeks he’ll go to find some artists who will design some african carving for the box.
October 31st, 2006 at 09:57 AM
Yeah, sehr geil!
This is awesome, great workmanship 🙂 These guys could make very nice arcade cabinets or groovy case mods for our market here. Don’t you want to post those pictures to the HardOCP modding forum? 😉
November 13th, 2006 at 02:11 PM
[…] There shall not lack education to the “illiterate” africa. Not only the students, but also the public should have access to the Information of the Polytechnic Library. That’s why the 13th of November the US embassy wants to open the “AMERICAN CORNER BLANTYRE” (ACM). The ACM is some sort of reading are, where the Malawian public can use the Internet for their research as well, as the books that were brought from an american Library. So far this seems to be a nice idea. A deed of which the american embassy is proud of itself. But what else would you call more imperialistic than development aid: The furniture was entirely produced in the united states and imported to Malawi. Under the cover of altruism in this way the american industrie is assisted more than the local one. We all know that in Blanytre you can find a lot of very nicely produced furniture made out of the best Malawian woods (Mulanje Ceder, Mahagoni wood etc.) and you would assist the local industry. (Here I’d like to take reference to the locally produced CD-duplicator case.) This way you would make sure the impact to the local carpenter would be longer lasting and effective. […]
March 28th, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Slick.